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Hundreds of feet of electrified rail skewered the first two carriages of a New York commuter train in a collision with a car at a railroad crossing, a federal investigator said on Wednesday, describing the area's worst rail crash in decades.

Kalina Oxana receives a bouquet of flowers from a representative of Khanh Hoa General Hospital where she went through an operation in which doctors removed 22 pieces of a needlefish's beak in her neck. Photo courtesy of Dan Tri

JAKARTA, March 5, 2014 (AFP) - One navy serviceman was killed and 87 other people were injured on Wednesday in an explosion at an Indonesian naval warehouse stocked with light ammunition, the military said.

VietNamNet Bridge - Doctors of the Hanoi-based Vietnam-Germany Hospital have performed a surgery to remove a 4cm-long toothpick from the abdomen of a 53-year-old man from the northern city of Nam Dinh.

Although the Russians and the Chinese are reportedly fretting about the end of the world tomorrow — according to an interpretation of the ancient Mayan calendar — down here in the Yucatan, which was part of the Mayan empire, the locals couldn’t care less. Nor does anyone in Mexico City seem to notice. They are too busy thinking about what the new government is going to get up to. With its candidate, Enrique Penã Nieto, sworn into as president on...